The murky world of think tanks, lobbying shops and pressure groups is a crowded one - but I think I've identified a gap in the market. The Campaign for the Promotion of Residential England would fight bravely, relentlessly, and with a single noble purpose: to cover the fields of the Home Counties with bricks and mortar.

The Cabinet Office’s Efficiency and Reform Group is making strong progress towards delivering the government’s target of £15 billion of savings for the public purse this financial year, Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude announced today

The Government's flagship benefit reform has been savaged by MPs for "shocking" failures that have already wasted at least £140 million.

The Universal Credit scheme has been blighted by "alarmingly weak" management, with secretaries allowed to authorise purchase orders worth more than £20 million. In some cases it is unclear what suppliers have been paid for

The Government's flagship benefit reform has been savaged by MPs for "shocking" failures that have already wasted at least £140 million.

The Universal Credit scheme has been blighted by "alarmingly weak" management, with secretaries allowed to authorise purchase orders worth more than £20 million. In some cases it is unclear what suppliers have been paid for.

The Government's flagship benefit reform has been savaged by MPs for "shocking" failures that have already wasted at least £140 million.

The Universal Credit scheme has been blighted by "alarmingly weak" management, with secretaries allowed to authorise purchase orders worth more than £20 million. In some cases it is unclear what suppliers have been paid for.

Guido thought he had herd it all, but the Taxpayers Alliance have raised the steaks with their suggestion of saving money on grass-cutting by using cattle and sheep to graze on council land. Clearly a vealy good way to provide the taxpayer with value. Surprise, surprise then that Unite are milking it, coming out with an udderly ridiculous statement trying to butcher the policy:

On Tuesday night, in the last hour of the working day and the final metaphorical hour of their credibility, the government agreed to pause the second part of its lobbying bill. We have many reasons to suspect this "pause", not least its newness.

The first time Yonas Kebede took the controls of a plane last month, his teacher thought he must have flown one before. The 22-year-old, who had always dreamed of being in the cockpit, did everything instinctively, soaring through the sky and dipping the plane’s wings without flinching.

Using sheep instead of lawnmowers to cut grass on council land and sending children in care to boarding school are among a raft of money-saving suggestions made by a pressure group to help local authorities cut costs.

Suggestions that local authorities could save money by using sheep and cattle to cut grass "trivialised" the damage being done to services by the Government's austerity drive, unions representing over a million council workers have said.

The Government's flagship benefit reform has been savaged by MPs for "shocking" failures that have already wasted at least £140 million.

The Universal Credit scheme has been blighted by "alarmingly weak" management, with secretaries allowed to authorise purchase orders worth more than £20 million. In some cases it is unclear what suppliers have been paid for.

The Government's flagship benefit reform has been savaged by MPs for "shocking" failures that have already wasted at least £140 million.

The Universal Credit scheme has been blighted by "alarmingly weak" management, with secretaries allowed to authorise purchase orders worth more than £20 million. In some cases it is unclear what suppliers have been paid for.

The Government's flagship benefit reform has been savaged by MPs for "shocking" failures that have already wasted at least £140 million.

The Universal Credit scheme has been blighted by "alarmingly weak" management, with secretaries allowed to authorise purchase orders worth more than £20 million. In some cases it is unclear what suppliers have been paid for.

The Government's flagship benefit reform has been savaged by MPs for "shocking" failures that have already wasted at least £140 million.

The Universal Credit scheme has been blighted by "alarmingly weak" management, with secretaries allowed to authorise purchase orders worth more than £20 million. In some cases it is unclear what suppliers have been paid for.

The Government's flagship benefit reform has been savaged by MPs for "shocking" failures that have already wasted at least £140 million.

The Universal Credit scheme has been blighted by "alarmingly weak" management, with secretaries allowed to authorise purchase orders worth more than £20 million. In some cases it is unclear what suppliers have been paid for.

The Universal Credit scheme has been blighted by "alarmingly weak" management, with secretaries allowed to authorise purchase orders worth more than £20 million. In some cases it is unclear what suppliers have been paid for

The Government's flagship benefit reform has been savaged by MPs for "shocking" failures that have already wasted at least £140 million.

The Universal Credit scheme has been blighted by "alarmingly weak" management, with secretaries allowed to authorise purchase orders worth more than £20 million. In some cases it is unclear what suppliers have been paid for.